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...does his share to aid those who have active charge. Harvard for many years has grown more and more de-centralized in interest and some positive check must immediately be applied. The University Club, as proposed, seems to offer the easiest and most certain means of again uniting the student body and producing a spirit of unity which shall be powerful enough to bring success to our efforts, whether athletic or literary...
...regard to the proposed University Club, I think that a mass meeting of the whole student body would put the matter on a firmer standing than would any of the plans which have been suggested. As far as I know the feeling of the students and the graduates, too, is almost unanimous in favor of some such scheme as the University Club, as a means of knitting together the various interests of Harvard men, and therefore, the meeting would undoubtedly be well attended. Furthermore a large meeting of undergraduates would be far more enthusiastic and would most likely produce greater...
...similar club at Cambridge, and let a third express the feeling of the graduates on the matter, the undergraduates would at intervals express their own feeling). Have the Glee Club present to lead the united College in singing "Fair Harvard." Have personal invitations sent to each individual student and to many of the most prominent Harvard graduates to attend the meeting, for if Harvard is ever to have a University Club to unite her soul and body, we must have the earnest and active cooperation of every fellow-student to enable us to show our sincerity of purpose and determination...
...alludes, was made two years ago. Three means were then employed: personal conversation and correspondence with a large number of college men; the assignment of the University Club as a topic for themes in English course, and a blue-book canvass. The result was an overwhelming expression of thoughtful student opinion in favor of the project. Nearly twelve hundred signed the blue-books at once. There was some thoughtful opinion against the plan, based chiefly on the question of practicability, but without ignoring the very small minority, the committee of graduates who had the matter in hand were able...
Howard Houston Hall is undoubtedly the most popular building of the whole University of Pennsylvania in the eyes of the student body. It is the pivotal point around which the interesting features of the social life of the University are grouped, has brought the students more in contact with each other, and offers every attraction which can be properly recognized as legitimate and desirable for the University student...